Before Trump signed the bill imposing the sanctions on Wednesday, the Kremlin complained that it was receiving contradictory statements from the administration.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday he doesn’t believe the penalties would “be helpful to our efforts” to restore relations with Russia even as the White House said the president would sign the bill.

Asked about Tillerson’s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “We have not heard such statements. We note there is a certain contradiction in the statements being voiced in the White House.”

“Without doubt, it’s important that the President of the United States is thinking about the current state, and about the prospects for, bilateral relations,” he said.